A battlefield of ideas
Subtitle: Nazi concentration camps and their Polish prisoners
By: Tadeusz Debski.
Series: East European monographs ;; no. 580
Publisher: East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Polish.; Prisoners of war -- Poland.; Concentration camp inmates.; Concentration camps -- Europe -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. THE CAMPS INTERPRETED1; title: Definitions, Assumptions, Statements, Sources1; title: The Camps: Their History and Purpose14; title: The Organizational Structure of the Camps 23; title: The Categories of Prisoners34; title: The Explanatory Models of the Camps38; title: Old Models and A New Proposal53; title: Survivors and Scholars59; title: II. A TYPOLOGY OF PRISONERS81; title: General Remarks81; title: Men and Women82; title: Flotsam and Jetsam; the Undecided87; title: Those at the Bottom; the Muselmen88; title: The Lonely Intellectuals98; title: National, Religious and Ideological Groups 104; title: III. LIFE IN THE CAMPS123; title: The Painfulness of Camp Life123; title: Intensity126; title: Habituation129; title: Dignity and Self-respect131; title: From Day to Day133; title: Illness and Death151; title: Egoism, Altruism, Friendship161; title: Survival173; title: The SS in the Camps184; title: IV. THE SPECIAL CASE OF THERPOLES 195; title: The Second Kltref; title: V. AFTER TE LIBERATION 237; title: Back to Freedom .27; title: New Lives, Old Nightmares; title: LAGESPRACHE (Camp Language)263; title: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 269.